Vanier Scholarship

http://www.vanier.gc.ca/

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program honours Major-General the Right Honourable Georges Philias Vanier  (1888 - 1967) who was a distinguished Canadian solider, diplomat and served as governor general of Canada from 1969 to 1967.

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by offering them a significant financial award to assist them during their studies at Canadian universities. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related fields.  Canadian and international students are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier Scholarship, which is valued at $50,000 per year for up to three years.

Annual Value: $50,000

Deadline:  Friday, September 16, 2011 at 11:59 pm (Vancouver time). References are also due by this deadline. If the referees do not submit their references, then the applicants are unable to complete their applications.

Eligibility Criteria

 

  • Canadian citizens, landed immigrants (permanent residents of Canada), and international students are eligible to apply.
  • Must be a current doctoral student or master's student who will be a doctoral student in the next academic year (2012).
  • Must be nominated by a Canadian university.

Students who have held or are currently holding Tri-Agency scholarship funding (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR) for their doctoral program are not eligible to apply.

Evaluation Criteria

Students will be evaluated and selected based on the following criteria:

  • academic excellence.
  • research potential.
  • leadership.

Application Procedures

Students apply for the Vanier Scholarship using ResearchNet, an online application system.  Students must complete and submit their entire application by  Friday, September 16, 2011 at 11:59 pm.

(There is no designation for "UBC Okanagan" so please select "UBC." )

The application deadline is firm and NO late applications can be submitted.

Applications submitted by students directly to one of the granting agencies, instead of through the University, will not be considered.

Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

To apply, you must:

  • contact your graduate program and advise the program that you wish to apply for a Vanier scholarship.  Your program should assist you in evaluating whether or not you should submit an application. (In order to be a competitive candidate, you would need to be in the top 5% of your class.)
  • provide all original and official transcripts to the College of Graduate Studies by the deadline:

 Friday, September 16, 2011 at 11:59 pm.

  • The transcripts must be in sealed envelopes directly from the issuing institution.  (We recommend that you request transcripts and have them mailed to your home address.  Do not open the envelopes!  If the envelopes are opened, then the enclosed documents are considered "unofficial" and cannot be used for the scholarship competition.)

  • If you are a current UBC Okanagan student, you will need to provide official UBC transcripts.  Printed copies of grades from the Student Information System cannot be used.

  • Request two reference letters.  The reference letters must be submitted electronically through ResearchNet.  (Please ensure that your referees are aware that they will need to submit their references electronically.)

  • Obtain a leadership reference letter.  This letter should be written by someone who knows you in a non-academic capacity and should state how you have demonstrated and will potentially continue to demonstrate leadership capacity.  (You will need to obtain this reference and upload it to your application.)

  • If you are completing your doctoral degree at the same university where you have completed a previous degree, you will need to provide a compelling rationale for your choice of institution in the Special Circumstances section of the application.
  • Submit a complete application to ResearchNet by Friday, September 16, 2011 at 11:59 pm.

Please note that applications cannot be edited once they are submitted.

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Application Process

Once your application has been retrieved from Vancouver, it will be sent to the heads of department for review and nomination.  All the nominations will be reviewed by the College of Graduate Studies Awards Committee and ONLY THREE nominations will be forwarded to Vancouver for consideration in the national competition.  The applications will be reviewed again in Vancouver and only the BEST applications will be forwarded to the national competition.

** There is a great deal of infromation posted on the Vanier CGS site, so please review and read the posted materials carefully - www.vanier.gc.ca.

The successful candidates are notified by Vanier in April 2012.


 

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